Lord Cameron has accused Labour of standing for nothing after Sir Keir Starmer accepted a right-leaning Tory MP into the social gathering.
The overseas secretary mentioned Sir Keir welcoming Dover MP Natalie Elphicke into Labour on Wednesday confirmed the social gathering doesn’t have a plan.
“In life, in case you do not stand for one thing, you’ll fall for something,” he mentioned following a speech about defence on Thursday.
“I assumed that is type of what yesterday mentioned, that there is not a coverage about something.
“It is simply been about clearing the decks to attempt to focus consideration on the governing social gathering.
“And I believe yesterday proved, ‘oh, if you are going to fall for that, then you definately actually stand for nothing’. The plan, insurance policies? No thought.”
“While you hear a few defection you assume ‘oh no, not one other one, how are we going to deal with this by the tip of the day?’.
“However that claims a lot extra about Keir Starmer, the Labour Get together, and a whole lack of readability than it does a few prime minister who’s a great man, doing an important job in a tough time,” he mentioned.
“However I believe more and more individuals will see that.”
Keir Starmer and Natalie Elphicke forward of her defection.
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Mrs Elphicke’s defection has been criticised on all sides of the political spectrum, with many Labour MPs sad to have a politician of their social gathering who was seen as being to the best of the Tory social gathering, particularly together with her views on immigration.
Conservative MPs have expressed their confusion over why she defected after closely criticising Labour on many events.
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Lord Cameron was giving a speech on the UK’s nationwide safety on the Nationwide Cyber Safety Centre when he made the feedback.
He referred to as on Britain and its allies to “out-compete, out-cooperate and out-innovate” their adversaries in an ongoing “battle of wills”.
Too many “undertake a type of defensive crouch” as an alternative of taking motion, however Britain can select to make a distinction along with its companions, he mentioned.
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“We in Britain and the broader West have company – the query is that if we’ve got the braveness to make use of it – the braveness to behave,” he mentioned.
He added that the UK won’t signal free commerce offers “for the sugar rush of the press launch”.
Within the wide-ranging speech, he additionally defended the federal government’s deal to ship asylum seekers to Rwanda, saying the UK was open to the world – however wouldn’t permit prison gangs to determine who can enter the nation.
He additionally reiterated the latest UK dedication to construct as much as spending 2.5% of GDP on defence and mentioned different Nato allies must be aiming for this too.
“Nonetheless some appear unwilling to take a position at the same time as battle rages on our continent,” he mentioned.
